Shekhar Kapur says social interaction crucial for school kids, mulls over Zoom classrooms

Veteran Bollywood director Shekhar Kapur took to his social media account and expressed his concerns for school going kids who have been under lockdown across country. He shared his view that with online classes being conducted via Zoom, children are missing out on essential social development that is only provided in schools when interacting with ors. He labeled kids' time under lockdown as 'lost years' and urged his followers to think seriously about children.

Kapur wrote, "As classrooms move to Zoom, its time to seriously look at what might become ‘lost years’ for school kids. For lockdown environment at home is often t great. where are essentials of play, social interaction more important than in formative years of school kids."

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Delhi's Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has written to HRD Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank supporting ministry in its initiative to reopen schools with reasonable guidelines. Sisodia, who also hes Delhi Education Ministry, wrote, "First of all we need to assure every child, irrespective of and social class that y are important to us and all of m have an equal right to physical and intellectual of ir respective schools. clamor of online teaching or older children coming to school first and t younger ones should be put to rest."

Re his letter here:

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Phase-wise reopening

Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has stated that lockdown in containment zones will continue till June 30, allowing only essential activities and movement of people in or out of it. MHA has stated that all activities will be allowed in or areas except certain activities that will be allowed to restart in phases. It has also imposed a night curfew from 9:00 PM to 5 AM and banned international air travel, metro rails, cinema halls,  gymnasiums, swimming pools, entertainment parks, atres, bars and auditoriums and any functions or large garing. 

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• Phase 1: From June 8, religious places, hotels, restaurants, shopping malls will be allowed to reopen but will have to here to SOPs which will be issued by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW)
• Phase 2: Schools, colleges and or educational institutions will be opened in consultation with respective states and Union Territories from July 2020. An SOP will be issued for same by Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW)
• Phase 3: After furr assessment of prevalent COVID-19 conditions, resuming of international air travel, metros, cinema halls, gymnasiums, swimming pools, entertainment parks, atres, bars, auditoriums, social/political/sports/religious/cultural functions will be decided.

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